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An eclectic mix of thoughts and views on life both in meat-space and in cyber-space, focusing more on the informal observational/inspirational aspect than academic rigour.

Saturday, December 28, 2019

Life

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Life is both hard and weird. Life, in a reductionist sense, is the accumulation of billions of years of chemical processes that manage to ...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Existential

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Existential. That's the general type of feeling I get at the end of the year. In the past, I would often end up wallowing a little i...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

Marching Onwards...

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Heh. I didn't write for most of the year, and suddenly as the year draws to a close, you see me have entries in here. Naturally, life...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

NaNoWriMo 2019 & Concert Aftermath

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This year's NaNoWriMo is finally done, and even then, it feels like a bust. I originally had the idea of having several (haha) storyli...
Monday, October 28, 2019

TGCO Performance 2019!

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This year's NaNoWriMo promises to be a drama-fest, and that's not because of what I am intending to write. The web site itself, th...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Fun Employed

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I'm working elsewhere now. After two or so months of being funemployed, I am finally fun employed, though I am technically still withi...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

I Quit My Job

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It has been quite a while since I last wrote anything here. But this refrain has been rather clichéd of late. After nearly 14 years of as...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Quick Summary

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So, a quick summary of what I had written in 2018: 1 poem posted here 6 essays/rants posted here 0 prose/stories posted here 1 NaNoWriMo...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

My Anger

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I've been quietly festering over the past couple of years over how the world has been changing, and at this point, I can no longer stay ...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

NaNoWriMo 2018

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Yes, it's time for NaNoWriMo once again. I'm sorry that I didn't say anything earlier---just too many things to think about and...
Monday, June 04, 2018

June?

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It is June once again. There is usually nothing fantastic about June other than the increased amount of ``summer rain'' and perhaps...
Tuesday, May 08, 2018

La Loca, 傻女, and 傻女的爱

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Remember La Loca and 《傻女》 ? I've finally found the Chinese version of 《傻女》 (it is called 《傻女的爱》). 《傻女的爱》——陈慧娴 今夜再度想起那被遗忘的故事 去年此时的相遇...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Meandering Start

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Let me be honest---I'd be lying if I said that I felt a compelling need to write an entry here today. But that said, I looked at the pa...
Friday, January 05, 2018

Quick Summary

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So, a quick summary of what I had written in 2017: 1 poem posted here 8 essays/rants posted here 0 prose/story posted here 1 NaNoWriMo wi...
Saturday, December 09, 2017

A NaNoWriMo-esque Update

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This post should have gone out earlier, but well, things happen, so what's to be expected? I did not write anything about last year...
Monday, October 02, 2017

Belly-aching Against Ah Q

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Recently, I read 鲁迅's 《阿Q正传》 (``The True Stories of Ah Q'' by Lu Xun). It put me in yet another miasma of doubt over the weeken...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Goodbye Edythe-II

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The inevitable has happened. Edythe-II decided to give up the ghost about a fortnight ago, and I was stuck in a strange position of not hav...
Monday, May 22, 2017

A Theory of Time Use

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Time is a very interesting resource to think about. There are, as at this point of writing, 86.4k seconds in a day, give or take a second ...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Information and the Line

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Information (and by extension knowledge) is a funny thing. The more one tries to suppress information, the more it tries to fight back and ...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Marching On

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It is, for better or worse, almost the half-way mark for the month of March. I felt this compulsion to write something in this lightly negl...
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